posted on 2023-11-30, 17:55authored byChristopher J. Winta, Martin Wolf, Alexander Paarmann
We report the infrared dielectric properties of $\alpha$-quartz in the temperature range from $1.5\ \mathrm{K}$ to $200\ \mathrm{K}$. Using an infrared free-electron laser, far-infrared reflectivity spectra of a single crystal $y$-cut were acquired along both principal axes, under two different incidence angles, in S- and P-polarization. These experimental data have been fitted globally for each temperature with a multioscillator model, allowing to extract frequencies and damping rates of the ordinary and extraordinary, transverse and longitudinal optic phonon modes, and hence the temperature-dependent dispersion of the infrared dielectric function. The results are in line with previous high-temperature studies, allowing for a parametrized description of all temperature-dependent phonon parameters and the resulting dielectric function from $1.5\ \mathrm{K}$ up to the $\alpha$-$\beta$-phase transition temperature, $T_C = 846\ \mathrm{K}$. Using these data, we predict remarkably high quality factors for polaritons in $\alpha$-quartz's hyperbolic spectral region at low temperatures.
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